Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

Girard, who didn't trust us or our efforts to simplify. Yes, we'd accepted that."[no. 21]"You can see what that guy loves and hates. Look, let's draw aline that connects all the variations in feeling to each variant of Aramis:what do we come up with? The Carte de Tendre, the Map if the Land ?fTenderness* -a new one for the century, ours, a map that has beenneglected by novelists and the sniveling humanists. Yes, Aramis is loved,Aramis is hated. It all depends on its changing forms. Here's the Peakof Conversion of the company head; here's the Swamp of Cold Feelings;further on, the Temple of Enthusiasm of the World's Fair. Then you findLove's Trickery- ah ! if only we'd called it Porthos!-and the Go-Between'sHut, and the Budget Office Cave, and the Pit of Disappointments,deeper than the Pacific Ocean . . .""And you get to Marriage in the end?""Yes, but a marriage of reason, a shotgun wedding.""But since it concerns love of technology, Norbert, we should callit the Carte de Dur-the Map if the Land if Hardness. ""Hey, that's great! Come here, let me give you a hug! A real lovestory. Yes, that's it!" exclaimed my mentor. "They fell in love withAramis! If you're actually going to love technology, you have to giveup sentimental slop, novels sprinkled with rose water. All these storiesof efficient, profitable, optimal, functional technologies-it's the 'HarlequinRomances!' It's 'The Two of Us!' You get paid by the word, andyou sell them by the truckload. It's disgusting. The two of us, my friend,we're telling real love stories; we're not naIve romantics."The shortest path between a technological product and its completionmay be the crookedest one.*This map originally appeared in Madeleine de Scudery's allegorical novel Cldie(1654). Using the conventions of what was then the new science of cartography, themap depicted love afIairs as so many trajectories through an imaginary space, whichScudery called the "Royaume de Tendre."INTERPHASE